Andrew Joron was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1955 and grew up in Stuttgart, Germany; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Missoula, Montana. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he majored in history and philosophy of science. After a decade and a half spent writing science-fiction poetry, culminating in his volume Science Fiction (Pantagraph Press, 1992), he turned to a more philosophical mode of speculative lyric. This work has been collected in The Removes (Hard Press, 1999) and in Fathom (Black Square, 2003). He is also the translator, from the German, of the Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch’s Literary Essays (Stanford University Press, 1998), and the surrealist Richard Anders’s aphorisms and prose poems. Andrew lives in Berkeley, where he works as a freelance bibliographer and indexer.

Contact Jim Maughn at 831-336-5409 or jamaughn@cabrillo.edu for more information.

UC professor Rob Wilson has published poems in various journals from Tinfishto Partisan Review and Poetry. He is at work on two collections of poetry: Ananda Air: American Pacific Lines of Flight; and Automat:Un/American Poetics, and has put together two important collections of cultural criticism. Rob will read his anti-war poems and perform an exorcism of the spirit of “W.”

Rev. Dr. Tom Marshall

Tom Marshall teaches at CabrilloCollege and publishes in its journal, Porter Gulch Review,as well as other local, national, and international journals. His new chapbookentitled ≠(is not equal to) / a suite of poems will be given away at this reading. Rev Doc T will read those poems and contribute one about “possession” to the evening’s exorcism of the spirit of war.